I do understand where you're coming from. I was getting toys with allowance only (aside from B-Day/Christmas) just several years ago. In this case, waiting is not too bad. I'm sure you can find some other toys to occupy yourself until November (Which will come soon enough). The Obi-Wan is kinda cool, but the Yoda looks to be terrible. Look at it this way: Buying those two figures now costs nearly the same as one battlepack later. Two for $16 plus tax versus five for $20 plus tax. Waiting seems smarter.

ok so are these figures coming out this month or in november? Because like smartsoccer up above mentioned comic con gave an august release date to these BP yet I remember reading somewhere else it comes out in november.

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School has been on strike all month. so much for the summer job I was hoping to get D:

I'm hoping that they will be easy to get as well. They are a great deal considering that you get four clones AND a Jedi for $20 when four clones by themselves will set you back $32 now that Target has returned to the $8/figure pricing.

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Letting my collecting OCD get the better of me on a DAILY basis... and loving EVERY minute of it!

I'm hoping that they will be easy to get as well. They are a great deal considering that you get four clones AND a Jedi for $20 when four clones by themselves will set you back $32 now that Target has returned to the $8/figure pricing.

I hadn't thought of that - buying the five figures seperately would cost almost twice as much as the 5 figure BPs. Who the heck at Hasbro is setting these prices?

I hadn't thought of that - buying the five figures seperately would cost almost twice as much as the 5 figure BPs. Who the heck at Hasbro is setting these prices?

Oh-- this is fun. Basically, the cost of packaging materials is so high that it costs a lot to package one figure, but you save a ton when you can get 2 or 3 or 7 figures in a single package. For example:

1 Figure: $71 box of 7 figures in an Internet exclusive pack: $34-$40

1 carded GI Joe figure: $7 or $81 Comic 2-pack: $9.99

Basically, packaging costs a lot of money. I think someone told me once that a G.I. Joe figure in the 1980s cost a couple of cents to make, but the packaging was about $0.50-- why this is, I have no idea, but the packaging is a huge part of the product cost. If fans simply demanded $10 and $20 figure multi-packs, we'd all be getting much better deals. (Heck, look at Valor vs. Venom/Spy Troops/etc. It's not just the licensing fee, the cost of cardboard and plastic always gets passed along to the consumer.) Even Evolutions are a fine example-- it's cheaper for Hasbro and it's cheaper for us. It's just that most fans prefer/demand the basic individual carded format. (A lot of Joe collectors actively despised the whole 2-pack angle, and I know it cost them a lot of my dollars as I often just wanted one of the two in the set.)

I would sign up for all of the above if not for all the discussion about why Hasbro did not include a 5th figure in the Sheild Generator Battle Pack. If your rationale is correct, it should cost next to nothing for them to include the additional Imperial Officer proposed. But Hasbro decided that they could charge $20 for four figures or would need to raise the price to $25 for the five figures including the 2nd duplicate officer.

If the bulk of the cost is wrapped up in packaging, then why the need to charge $5 for an additional figure? Something doesn't add up there. I get that packaging per figure costs more, but I'd really be shocked to find that it costs twice the price of bundled figures.